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The following CV is abridged in some parts (teaching and administrative experience) and more complete in others (publications, conferences). For a brief summary of my scholarly work and interests see the Research page. Feel free to contact me with any questions. Last updated: 22 December, 2016https://kennethnyberg.org/wp-content/uploads/ Degrees Ph.D. in History, University of Gothenburg, 16 November 2001 […]

Ethan Gach, responding to Aaron Bady’s critique of the piece by Clay Shirky that I quoted a month ago, discusses exactly what part of higher education will (or should) be unbundled by the coming of MOOCs and other forms of online learning: The original point of the university was the efficiency of large classes and […]

Clay Shirky drills down into the question of what MOOCs are and what they are not: The possibility MOOCs hold out isn’t replacement; anything that could replace the traditional college experience would have to work like one, and the institutions best at working like a college are already colleges. The possibility MOOCs hold out is […]

In a follow-up to a previous blog post on “the online course tsunami” Mills Kelly of George Mason University speculates on what may happen to the academic labour market if MOOCs (massively open online courses) gain real, long-term traction: If general education is to be delivered through whatever means (online only/hybrid) seems most cost effective […]